Farming in space: Nongmen Fufei is beautiful and sassy

Chapter 9 How much to dig, how much to eat

The traps are not so easy to dig.

If you want to trap wild boars, you need to be deep enough and big enough to dig them purely by manpower. The amount of work is too large to be done in a day.

This needs to be figured out.

Ye Zhen followed the wild boar's footprints all the way, and found a large natural pit on the road, which was deep enough, and there were two sections with gentle slopes, so she could go in and come out again.

Ye Zhen directly dug out the slopes at both ends, dug a deeper hole, smoothed the edges, and inserted sharp bamboo pieces inside, so that the wild boar cannot get up after going down, that's all.

Once the trap was dug and disguised, another afternoon passed.

Before returning home, Ye Zhen also picked some mulberries after carefully observing and searching around, and dug up a four or five catty foot potato, enough to feed two full meals!
There are thorn buds that just came out by the roadside, Ye Zhen also picked some.

Ye Zhen couldn't help but burst out laughing at the joy she had gained, and she just returned home covered in sweat and mud marks, carrying a basket on her back.

It was already dark when she got home, so she put the basket by the wall, and as soon as she entered, she saw the three brothers who also had mud marks on their faces.

"Sister, are you back? We dug the ground, swept the yard, washed the dishes, wiped the table..." Six-year-old Ye Hong hurriedly reported to work, and looked at Ye Zhen with sparkling eyes after speaking. Look eager.

After a busy afternoon, the three brothers were hungry.

Ye Zhen nodded, and looked at the gray boss Ye Ying. Ye Ying tried to calm down, but there was light in his eyes. Obviously, the afternoon's work gave him a sense of pride: I don't need my younger brothers. To feed, I will work too!
"Wash your face and hands, and your clothes. I'll cook."

The rice bought two days ago was almost finished, only enough for two or three meals, Ye Zhen decided to save the rice for tomorrow, and tonight she will eat the yams.

Thinking about it, she took out another piece of meat, chopped it into minced meat, added only salt, mixed it with yams, and stewed it in a pot. When it came out of the pot, the fragrance was already filling the room.

The three children couldn't help swallowing their saliva, Ye Zhen didn't show any pretense, she took a big bowl, and the four of them each had a bowl, and brought them over.

After the four of them finished eating, Ye Zhen took out the mulberries again: "Eat some mulberries."

Fruits after meals, although the current conditions are not good enough, and better things cannot be given to the children, but the children have eaten the mulberries picked on the mountain together, so it will not arouse suspicion.

Ye Zhen is used to being cautious:
In this dynasty, beef could not be eaten lightly. The government had to kill the cattle in a unified way, and the common people bought them before they could eat them.Therefore, steak and beef cannot be taken out for children to eat, for fear of revealing stuffing.

Sea prawns are even worse!There is no sea in this mountain, only a river beside the town. They have never seen such a big shrimp, okay?
There are also frozen fish, meatballs and so on... It should be fine to deal with it at that time...

While thinking and planning in my heart, I arranged tomorrow's tasks for them: "You are responsible for doing these things tomorrow..."

The next morning, Ye Zhen got up early to boil water for breakfast.

The dumplings stuffed with pork and cabbage can't be eaten directly by them, Ye Zhen boiled them to a mush, each of the three children got a bowl of mush, and each added an egg.

After she was full, Ye Zhen took the lettuce, sweet potato, potato, Lipu taro, water spinach, raw peanut, tomato... from the refrigerator and prepared to grow vegetables.

Because there are not many of each kind, Ye Zhen also knows that there will be nothing after planting, so she strives to grow them alive and use them for breeding in the future.

You must know that there are no sweet potatoes, potatoes, and Lipu taro here, and I have never seen water spinach and lettuce. If this is really planted, it can be scaled up in the future, but it can make money.

Because she was afraid that insects would rush away, Ye Zhen first cut sweet potatoes, potatoes, and taro into several pieces, wrapped them in ash from the stove, and buried them in the soil.

Finally, sprinkle a layer of plant ash on it, and then pour water, which has organic fertilizer and can prevent insects.

Lettuce and water spinach are directly planted with a layer of plant ash on the roots.

Ye Zhen cut open the four tomatoes, buried them along the edge of the garden, watered them and sprinkled them with plant ash, whether they can germinate depends on God's will.

Two big red peppers, Ye Zhen cut out the seeds inside, leaving the flesh of the peppers, and planted the seeds.

There was still half of the foot potato dug back yesterday, Ye Zhen thought about it, and cut into pieces with the skin on, wrapped them in plant ash, dug holes along the edge of the garden and buried them: this kind of stuff is not expensive, it is also available on the mountain.

But digging one in the mountain counts as one, it depends on luck, you have to find it.If you grow it in your own garden, you can dig it whenever you want to eat it.

To be honest, Ye Zhen is not good at growing vegetables. Although she used to help her adoptive parents grow vegetables, it was only limited to some vegetables in this place, such as beans, cabbage, cucumbers, eggplants and so on.

Like the taro, sweet potato, and potato planted today, things that can be used as staple food as well as cooking are something that Yuan Bo has never seen before.

The original owners of peppers and peanuts have never seen it either.

I don't know if it's because the village is too remote?Or is there no such thing in this era?

The unshelled raw peanuts in the refrigerator weighed about a catty, and I was planning to fry them myself to serve with wine.Now it's all right, it's a seed.

The soil dug by the children yesterday was not wide enough to plant peanuts today.

Ye Zhen thought about it, and gave the children the task of digging for another half a day.

The boss, Ye Ying, was not happy.

He was originally obstinate, but now Ye Zhen has a lot more tasks than yesterday, and he felt tired, so he opened his mouth and complained: "There are so many things, how can we finish today?! You want to exhaust us to death ?”

The two younger brothers suddenly became nervous: Is the elder brother and elder sister going to quarrel again?
Ye Zhen didn't get mad as usual, but pointed to the field and asked, "Why do you think I planted these things?"

Why else?Of course it is for eating!
Needless to say, Ye Ying knew it too.

But Ye Ying just didn't feel angry: Why do my three brothers have to do so many things in a day?How to finish it?
Ye Zhen did it before!
Ye Zhen smiled: "If I eat alone, I don't need to grow vegetables at all. I can support myself even if I go to the back mountain to hunt and dig wild vegetables. But with you three brothers, I can hunt and dig wild vegetables." That little thing might not be enough to eat."

The three brothers had lived enough without food, and when they heard that there was not enough food, they subconsciously tensed up.

"If you don't mind if you don't have enough to eat in the future, eat one meal a day, eat whatever you have, and don't eat if you don't have to. I don't force you to dig the ground." After finishing speaking, Ye Hao spread her hands, "I'm going to There is hunting in the back mountain, you can figure it out yourself."

The boss, Ye Ying, was also in a hurry. He really felt that he couldn't finish it, so he petted Ye Zhen's back and shouted: "But such a wide land, I really can't finish digging!"

Ye Zhen raised her hand: "Eat as much as you dig."

After speaking, Ye Zhen strode into the mountain.

The boss, Ye Ying, was dumbfounded: How much to dig and how much to eat?How does this count?Do you have enough to eat after digging?Dig half and eat half?
Ye Zhen seemed to have made it clear, but she didn't. She did it on purpose.

(End of this chapter)